Location signaling for large-scale, end-to-end, quality-of-service monitoring of mobile telecommunication networks

摘要

A method, network, and device for measuring and analyzing packet-switched traffic in a packet-switched radio telecommunication network. When cell-level location information for a mobile station ( 1 ) changes due to a handover, the location information is transmitted toward a packet core network ( 9 ) by adding the information to userplane packet headers such as a GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) header ( 26 ). The measurement device measures the cell-level location information at a level ( 15 b) in the network where the information from a plurality of mobile stations ( 1 ) is aggregated, together with PDP context information prior to analyzing information for the entire network.